Outdoor battery brooder window



May'4,'1937. ESWINN 2,679,138

OUTDOOR BATTERY BROODER WINDOW Original Filed Deo. 2, 1952 V 5 n n a n n l n n n i i INVENTOR.

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Patented May 4, 1937 UNITED STATES `i .i'1"i:NTV OFFICE N Elisha S. Winn, Fitzgerald, Ga.

Original application December 2, 1932, Serial No. 645,460. Divided and this application July 10, V1936, Serial No. 89,977

4 Claims. (Cl. 98-88) This invention relates to a brooder ventilator window and is a division of application Serial No. 645,460, led December 2, 1932, and patented October 6, 1936, No. 2,056,814. v,

It is an object of this invention to provide a Ventilator window especially intended for the particular outdoor battery brooder disclosed and claimed in the aforementioned patent application, the particular window ventilator of this invention, however, being equally servicable in outdoor battery brooders of any nature.

The particular object of this invention is to provide a window which. will serve as a means of light and of ventilation, which ventilation is controllable to a greater or lesser degree as desired.

Furthermore it provides complete protection against rain or wind, yet prevents the baby chicks or other fowl from escaping therethrough. It may be easily opened for servicing the chicks and for operation of the several features within the brooder, allowing access thereto, as set forth in Patent No.V 2,056,814; at the same time, it affords a doorway or passage way for the chicks when they areto be given access to the yard by a runway from the brooder.

As a further feature of this invention, the window ventilator `hereof is not necessarily limited to a brooder for chickens but is equally servicable for use in all types of farm out-houses wherever it may be found desirable to control the ventilation and light thereto.

With the foregoing and other objects in view Y as will hereinafter become apparent, this invention comprises the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter disclosed, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a full sectional'view, partly broken away of the battery brooder to which this invention has been applied. l

Fig. 2is an enlarged front elevational view of the Window ventilator of this invention, and

Figs. 3 and 4 are section views on lines 3-3 and 4--4 of Fig. 2.

I-Iere is shown at I0 an outdoor battery brooder toI which this invention has been applied. This battery brooder includes the roof II and a feed hopper I2, the top I3 of which serves as a runway for the baby chicks to gain access to the passage way provided into the battery brooder I0 through the ventilator window constituting this invention. As will be apparent from Fig. 1 and from the application of which the present application is a division, the walls I5 of the brooder IIJ are provided with aplurality of ventilator windows constituting this invention. This window consists of a flanged framework I6, placed on the outside of a wall I5 of the broodery I0, and on both sides of the window opening I'I. A panel I8 is provided for the flanged framework I6 on one side of the window opening Il, and aV metal ventilator I9, having downwardly turned louvers 20, is provided in the other end of the framework I6 As shown in full outline in Fig. 2, the ventilator may be placed at one end, while the glass panel I8 may be slid tofthe opposite end, leaving the window I'I entirely open and suitable to serve as a passageway at least where it is located adjacent to the top I3 of the feeder hopper i2. 5 The light and ventilation may be controlled to any desired degree. Thus both the glass panel I8 and the metal ventilator I9 may be moved partially over the window opening ll, so as to give a small amount of ventilation and still allow some light. As shown in Figure 1, the glass panel i8 may be moved to position I8 at times, allowing light without ventilation, while, as shown in the same figure, the metal Ventilator may be moved to position I9 at times, allowing ventilation and no light, through the window opening.

Having thus set forth and disclosed the nature of this nvention, what is claimed isz- 1. In an outdoor battery brooder, a brooder wall, a controllable Ventilating means for said wall, said means comprising a window frame on said brooder wall, a window opening through said wall of said brooder within said window frame, a metal ventilator slidable in said window frame to one side of said window opening, and a glass panel in said window frame slidable to the other side of said `window opening.

2. A controllable Ventilating means for use on a wall having a window opening therein, said means comprising a window frame extending beyond both sides of the window opening, a metal ventilator, slidable in said window frame to one side of .said window opening, and a glass panel in said window frame, slidable tothe other side of said window opening.

3. A controllable Ventilating means for use on a wall having a window opening therein, said means comprising a window frame extending beyond both sides of the window opening, a metal ventilator, slidable in said window frame to one 50 side of said window opening, and a glass panel in said window frame, slidable to the other side of said window opening, said window frame having internally extending flanges to provide grooves for guiding said glass panel and said ventilator. 55

ing internally extending flanges to provide grooves for guiding said glass panel and said ventilator, a plurality of parallel downwardly extending louvers in said metal ventilator through which air may pass when said ventilator is in front of said 5 Window opening.

ELISHA S. W'INN. 

